Answer:
The nymph suggests that all the things the shepherd has offered her are
D. likely to wither, fade, die, or otherwise pass away.
Explanation:
"The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd" is a poem by Sir Walter Ralegh. The speaker of the poem is a nymph, a mythological being usually pictured as a beautiful young woman, more specifically a maiden. Nymphs are spirits of nature, connected to the forests, rivers, air etc. In the poem, a shepherd seems to have tried to seduce the nymph. He brought her flowers, spoke sweet words, made promises, all to no avail. The nymph explains to him that all he has offered her will eventually die or disappear. Things rot, get old, become useless. If they didn't, she would become his love. She won't, because everything that makes love beautiful will perish.
The flowers do fade, and wanton fields,
To wayward winter reckoning yields,
A honey tongue, a heart of gall,
Is fancy’s spring, but sorrow’s fall.
Thy gowns, thy shoes, thy beds of Roses,
Thy cap, thy kirtle, and thy posies
Soon break, soon wither, soon forgotten:
In folly ripe, in reason rotten.
Thy belt of straw and Ivy buds,
The Coral clasps and amber studs,
All these in me no means can move
To come to thee and be thy love.
